SharePoint Online: How to Publish a File using PowerShell

Requirement: Publish a Document in SharePoint Online

How to Publish a File in SharePoint Online?
When you enabled minor versions (or drafts) in SharePoint Online, all changes to any document isn't available to users with read only permissions, until its Published. Published documents becomes major versions such as 1.0. Here is how to publish a file in SharePoint Online:

• Navigate to the document library where your file is located.
• Right click on the document to publish >> In the context menu, choose More >> and then click on Publish.
  
• Enter a comment in the Comments box and click on OK.

It publishes a major version and file can be viewed by others now!

PowerShell to Publish a Document in SharePoint Online:

#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"

#Set Parameters
$SiteURL="https://crescenttech.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
$FileRelativeURL ="/Sites/Marketing/Team Documents/Project Proposal.docx"
$Comment="Final Version"

#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred= Get-Credential

Try{
    #Setup the context
    $Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
    $Ctx.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)

    #Get the File to Publish
    $File = $Ctx.Web.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl($FileRelativeURL)
    $Ctx.Load($File)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

    #Publish the File
    $File.Publish($Comment)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()       

    Write-Host -f Green $File.Name "has been published successfully!"
}
Catch {
Write-host -f Red "Error:" $_.Exception.Message
}

Similarly, you can unpublish a file using: "$File.Unpublish($Comment)" method. Here is my another post for bulk publish SharePoint Online: Publish Multiple Documents using PowerShell